Public anxious about AI? Yep. 👇 via @economist.com

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.

🚨Thrilled to share I am able to hire someone (PhD preferred) with coding expertise to work on our HAPPE software for EEG! Knowledge of Matlab, Python, and EEG signal processing required. Enthusiasm for teaching/mentoring, collaboration, and developmental science preferred!

Ug- thanks for the heads up @camhostinar.bsky.social ! Corrected link: www.ucsf.edu/news/2026/01...

When a brain researcher solved a logistical problem by going rogue, the idea proved remarkably infectious. By @lyrebard.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...

Will likely become a classic! And welcome to BlueSky @nicolebushphd.bsky.social 🎉

A bit of a Festivus inspired post about CLPMs and RI-CLPMs: floggingpvalues.blog/2026/01/20/t...

A study shows a cow using a "multi-purpose" tool — a broom, for scratching. "multi-purpose tool use... is extraordinarily rare. Beyond humans, it has only been shown convincingly in chimpanzees." Another example of "this animal is smarter than we thought" 🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Our recent paper discussing why children might care more about animals. A joy to write with @lmcguire.bsky.social @nadirafaber.bsky.social Jared Piazza and Katja Liebal. academic.oup.com/cdpers/advan...

Writing is thinking Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.

New paper in @acamh.bsky.social's JCPP! We found that early adversity doesn't affect positive emotions uniformly-- youth follow 4 distinct developmental trajectories. & This heterogeneity matters for understanding depression/anxiety risk. 🧵 1/5 📊 Paper: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A few days left to apply to join my lab as a PhD student! We study how people explore, how new ideas form, and how thinking develops. Learn more at liquinlab.github.io. Application review begins 1/15. #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogSci #DevPsyc

New paper alert! Led by Dr. LillyBelle Deer (@lillybelledeer.bsky.social), we found that an acute stressor task did not significantly impact EF performance in middle childhood. Children with greater parasympathetic reactivity (RSA) performed better under stress. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧠 Hiring a Research Assistant/Lab Manager! Share widely! 📍 St. Louis | ⏰ Full-time We're launching the How We Learn Lab @WashU, studying attention, learning & memory interactions. Perfect for anyone interested in dev cog neuro who wants hands-on experience before grad school. deckerlab.com

I've been shouting about this since Google first floated the idea of LLMs as a replacement for search in 2021. Synthetic text is not a suitable tool for information access! buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... /fin (for now)

If you are submitting an NIH grant in February, you will be required to use SciENcv to prepare you biosketch. IT IS MUCH WORSE THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE. Set aside *at least* 4 hours just to transfer an existing an biosketch into SciENcv.

I don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

Regulating DTC #microbiome tests academic.oup.com/jlb/article/... "...often misleading to consumers..." "...the tests lack analytical and clinical validity." "...may have many 'false positive' or 'false negatives' and can harm consumers." Needed: more stringent regulation!

Participants in sixteen Dry January studies reported better mood, improved sleep and weight loss, and had healthier blood pressure, blood sugar and liver function.

A recent survey from RAND found more than 1/2 of US students are using AI for school, an increase of 15% this yr compared to just 2 yrs ago. At the same time, 61% of parents believe AI will harm students' critical thinking compared to just 22% of school district leaders.”🧪

Such an important article about loneliness in young adults www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

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Cool study in JAMA Psychiatry confirms what many have suspected for a while: PHQ (depression questionnaire) instructions are widely misinterpreted by patients. It is unfortunate that a questionnaire as shitty as PHQ-9 has become so ingrained & ubiquitous jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Telling good science from bad – a user’s guide to navigating the scientific literature www.wiringthebrain.com/2021/08/tell...

Opinion: The “machinal bypass” examines how #AI can replace—not augment—our own presence. From #researchers to #clinicians, what happens when we let machines stand in for ourselves? In PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/Tro450XLB5q#AI#researchers#clinicians#AI #psychology #psychiatry #MentalHealth #LLM

Study in Helsinki indicating benefits of portable air cleaners on lowering infection risk in daycare centers, less absences & parent absences from work in intervention vs. reference (no air cleaner) groups. Cleaning indoor air is not difficult and it works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Can Chatbots Emulate Human Connection? Chatbots can be responsive in ways humans see as supportive, yet cannot provide the benefits of a real human. My concern is that as more people go to chatbots for social contact, they will not be available to real humans. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🫀 New preprint alert! 🌆 Thrilled to share the first paper of my PhD on heart-rate synchrony during social interactions in urban environments. @sinelabdtu.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

oh what fun it is to have this paper out :)

New paper out in @science.org! We unveil the online manipulation market with the Cambridge Online Trust & Safety Index (COTSI). We show in real time the cost of purchasing fake accounts across every social platform around the world - so they can be held accountable www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I really hope people do not use ChatGPT for child-rearing questions.

A published meta-analysis turned out to be entirely AI generated (citing entirely fabricated citations). 😱

UC Davis is the “greenest” campus in North America and seventh most sustainable campus in the world, according to the 2025 UI GreenMetric World University Rankings: ucdav.is/4poPbqS

Second, this generates a huge & increasing drain. A drain of money, but also of time, control, and trust. It's like a bubble -- and if it bursts, the trust in the publication system will be gone. Everybody watering down their wine on their side, till no-one trusts no wine vendor, ever, anywhere.

Not one of the bigger issues, but an annoyance of teaching composition in the age of AI is that I'm constantly uncertain of what the students know and don't know, which makes it difficult to calibrate my teaching choices relative to my perceived sense of their understanding.

A must read piece for anyone in academia grappling with uncertainties about the future of education since the public release of LLMs.

Open access alert! Our new paper validating a continuous scaled menstrual cycle time variable is now available for 3 free months via PNEC's editor's choice: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/psyc...

Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education - actual, real education in reading, writing, thinking, arguing, analyzing, & synthesizing by doing the actual hard work for which there is no substitute - is stronger than it’s ever been at any point in human history.

A huge 89% majority of global people [56% even in the United States] want stronger action to fight the #ClimateCrisis, but mistakenly believe they’re in a minority. People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action. #ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social

Let the dessert postings begin!

International Congress on Infant Studies (ICIS) abstract deadline has now been extended to Friday December 12th! Don’t miss this opportunity to share your research, connect with leading scholars, and experience the unique setting of Panama City. ☀️ 🇵🇦 @infantstudies.bsky.social

Issue 61, Volume 12 is out at Developmental Psychology! psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES... Topics Include -Intergenerational and Contextual Adversity -Ethnic-Racial Socialization -Executive Functions -Impact of Parenting @apajournals.bsky.social 1/2

Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

I wrote a piece for The Conversation on the importance of SNAP for reducing food insecurity and improving child health. I’d love it if you would read and share!